"The Beatles: The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute" will be broadcast in the UK on ITV this Friday 2nd May from 10:35pm

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"The Beatles: The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute" will be broadcast on ITV this Friday 2nd May from 10:35pm to 12:40am

The programme was filmed earlier this year and celebrates the 50th anniversary of one of the most memorable moments in music and television's joint history - the groundbreaking first appearance by the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

This musical celebration of that evening sees Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, along with a host of huge musical names including Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl, Eurythmics, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Stevie Wonder performing Beatles classics, while various presenters and performers including Sean Penn, Johnny Depp and Eric Idle help contextualise and highlight the musical, cultural and historical impact of the group.

The programme also features David Letterman interviewing Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at the iconic Ed Sullivan Theatre, as well as interviews with people who worked on the 1964 show and were in the audience.

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I was 16 left school and in basic training to be a soldier anxious, scared and not knowing what lied ahead, i walked into the spa on camp and seen the Beatles No 1. A young scouse kid with the world against him, I bought the album and it inspired me ended up best recruit. I love the Beatles a lifetime later here I am watching the night that changed America with great stars performing covers, I hear better covers week in week out in the ship n forecast, Zanzibar and the 02 I think Paul and ringo should come home and realise Liverpool and the people from the pool of life changed America sitting in the smoke filled rooms of social clubs, pubs and clubs made them who they are. Paul is involved in LIPA so why isnt he highlighting the raw talent that thrives from we're he was born n bred. This isn't a rant I adore the Beatles and Paul for all the work he does I just think you should remember your roots. Katy perry has just sung a song because it's a Beatles song and it sounds good I will take you to a pub with a 16 year old kid who has got an acoustic guitar and can make your hair stand on end. I don't want to be a hypocrite if I had the chance I would take my family out of Liverpool because of the few infectious up and coming asbos who have no respect, but if I left famous I would remember every person who clapped when I sang kareoke, every person who cheered when I scored for the local team and every working class scouser who made me who I am. Liver forever the Fab Four just remember where your seeds fell , who watered you and who watched you grow. Goodnight god bless x

"People that were not there cannot comprehend what it was like for a kid to hear a new Beatles song for the first time. It put a real magic in the air." -from "The Beatles" section of "The Present." If you are a fan of the Beatles, check out "The Present" at TruthContest ) c0m. The section about the Beatles begins on page 59.

Any news to the rumor that Paul and Ringo will be teaming up at select dates this summer? The January appearance at the 2014 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles was truly a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles breakthrough in America. I hear that the Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band dates are ripe for such a reunion, particularly the July 11th, San Diego show at Humphrey’s as both musicians will be in the Southern California for an extended period of time.